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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 318, 8 January 1909, Page 2

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KAJSKI; Jii-:SIM>NSI Jij.i: OTHER SEN&ATK UK sensation luii dinner on Sunday a;ul ri\i the same timo exploring his cordial ap ]>rovul of it, an article which appeared in the Deutsche Revue on "War of the Present Day." The Kaiser attributed the article t.o Count. SchlieNan, formerly Chief of the (ieiiera! Stall'. 'Die article discuss;** Hie military isolation and hemming iu of Germany and Austria. It next >:»mpha* sisi's the desti'uctiveness of modern Hi' 1 , rendering speedy tactic* essential io a nation's existence. Referriiig to political aspects it mentions that Germany's commercial industrial progress made Great Britain an unforgiving enemy. Technical reasons are adduced to show that the danger of a joint attack on Germany and Austria is, less real than it might be supposed owing to the fear l of any assailant that the remoter allies might iirrive to.o late. Vet the existence of a combination pennaaentiy menaces and automatic-ally affects German 1 nerves. London, January 0. The Times' Berlin correspondent say* that high approval of the article hats not yet been ollicially denied, and that it is permissible to doubt whether it extended to political speculations.

11l making- allowance for the Kaiser's altered indiscretions, we must remember the Herman language (says tlio Nc.v York Evening Post). Ordinary (icrimin prose suiters from a dreadful excess of metaphor. The "mailed list" and the "loosened sabre" are not altogether rhetorical sparks struck out on the hot anvil of imperial excitement, but examples of that poetic exaggeration so easy to •! Omnia. It is a fault most common amongst the most learned. Profess n - Jones, of Yale or Harvard, would probably begin his volume on "The (leology of Yucatan": "liy Yucatan, in the present work, 1 mean tire Central American peninsula known by that name as well as the adjacent islands," etc. lint Professor Jianmierschlag, of Lcipsic, must begin by saying: "'J'lie convulsive continent splitting efforts of Term to pour forth her imprisoned, vital I'nrees, brought forth, in tile dim Triassic age*, tile torrid land-mass which lolls like a sleeping monster between the warm waters of the Caribbean and the torrid waves of the (iulf of ilexieo in 87deg to Mdcg west longitude.'' An English politician speaking in English s Tiys: "This country— cr—welcomes the—e'r—friendly rivalry of a great Power like Germany under its—er—honored Sovereign as—er—conducive to the interes s of both tuitions," etc. But when a Ce--nmn statesman rises to spiak the genius of his language demands that he shall say: "(leruuniia wants peace, but she will continue to stare defiantly into the bloodshot eyes of ravening naval Powers who, with eager claws," etc.